Random magnetic field and the Dirac Fermi surface

Chao-Jung Lee and Michael Mulligan
Phys. Rev. B 107, 205145 – Published 23 May 2023

Abstract

We study a single two-dimensional Dirac fermion at finite density, subject to a quenched random magnetic field. At low energies and sufficiently weak disorder, the theory maps onto an infinite collection of 1D chiral fermions (associated to each point on the Fermi surface) coupled by a random vector potential. This low-energy theory exhibits an exactly solvable random fixed line, along which we directly compute various disorder-averaged observables without the need for the usual replica, supersymmetry, or Keldysh techniques. We find the longitudinal dc conductivity in the collisionless ω/kBT limit to be nonuniversal and to vary continuously along the fixed line.

  • Received 8 November 2022
  • Revised 29 March 2023
  • Accepted 24 April 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.205145

©2023 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Chao-Jung Lee

  • Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

Michael Mulligan

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California 92511, USA

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Vol. 107, Iss. 20 — 15 May 2023

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